San Isidro Cultural Center is an organization created and established in the Department of Santa Cruz – Bolivia.

The San Isidro neighborhood is located in the Plan 3000 district of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia. In the Plan 3000 district lives the poorest population in Santa Cruz. Kilian and Anna work there with the children of this district.

Now they have 12 Xo laptops to work with these children. In the first hours of their activity, the children learned about the laptops and found everything about them. The next step is to start a project called: “How to build a better neighborhood”, in which children will build their own stories with pictures of the neighborhood, thinking how to improve the environment (there are a lot of trash in the streets) and other important issues to the district. Children are very committed, so Anna and Killian expect the project will be successful.

Anna Lena, Kilian, Janna and Johanna are four German volunteers working in different organizations: the Bibliobus (LibraryBus), ArteriasUrbanas and San Isidro Foundation, they are together to give life to a new project with the Xo’s that we have in Santa Cruz – Bolivia.

Last Wednesday, the children of the neighborhood of San Isidro were experiencing for the first time with the Xo’s, as expected a lot of curiosity among the children, next week I hope to have pictures and more information on the next visit of the BusLibrary (Bibliobus) and the Xo’s to this neighborhood.

I want to share with you a presentation on what I am imagining, about the questions I am wondering myself and the solutions that I am trying to create, I hope to have more information for you in a few months :-)

Finally, if all goes well, we will start the Bibliobus project (a mobile Bus Library) in mid-November.The Xo laptops are already with the people of “Arterias Urbanas” in Santa Cruz (a group of artists from different genres) and we will begin soon the training with the person responsible for using Scratch and the Xo’s inside the bus.

For now and for inspiration, this was the project we did in the same city more than a year ago, the recycle game.